Robert Brown helped to save four men, and assisted in an attempt to save two others, from drowning, Bonavista, Newfoundland, September 19, 1907. During a storm at night, a schooner was torn from its moorings in the harbor and wrecked on the rocks that bound it. It went ashore stern foremost and struck between two rocks at the shoreline. The darkness was intense, the wind was blowing 60 m.p.h., and the waves, from 20 to 30 feet high, dashed up on the rocks for a distance of 40 feet. Holding to a line in the hands of fishermen up on a large rock, Brown, 55, sub-collector of customs, descended far down the rock’s steep and dangerous face and attempted to cast a line on board the wreck. After he made another unsuccessful cast, one of the fishermen cast the line to the deck, 12 feet above, where it was made fast. The men left the wreck rapidly. Brown, remaining in a position of much danger, helped get the seamen up the rock, several times narrowly escaping being washed away by the waves. Two of the vessel’s crew were washed overboard and drowned. 6792-678
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